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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This is a role that, for whatever reason, is played by an actor of the opposite sex or another gender. Some common reasons for this involve a gender imbalance in the supply of actors: Theater troupes may be all male, usually because the Moral Guardians have decreed that women should not go on The Wicked Stage; such troupes will use this trope by necessity. Community and school theater companies frequently have more women than men. Many plays (especially older ones) have more male than female roles. Cross-casting is one possible solution, though Gender Flip or Acting for Two may also be used. Similarly, sketch comedy groups are frequently all-male, so female roles are often handed to men; it helps that many cultures find men dressed as women inherently funny. Certain university drama groups only use male actors, a tradition that began as a necessity in the days when women could not be students. This practice started to decline at the tail end of the 20th century. If the role is to be a sufficiently young child, the actor's gender matters much less. In particular, infants are frequently used in film and television without regard to gender. Days of Our Lives famously got into hot water in the soap opera press for hiring two infant girls to play an infant male character and then callously canning both of them when they started to grow into toddlers and began to look more like girls. A soap opera recap on Television Without Pity also referenced this trope: "The infant actor need not match the character's gender. The parents are responsible for having to explain to their [cisgender] son why he was in a pink dress and wearing pink hair bows as a baby". Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Other common reasons are varied: In any kind of production with a lot of difficult singing, the roles of young boys are frequently played by women. Good boy sopranos can be tough to find, especially if you also need them to be able to act; they also have a very specific vocal timbre which may not be compatible with the production's overall aesthetic (e.g., in Opera). Not to mention if they are close enough to adolescence a boy's voice may change completely by surprise, overnight. Compare the high proportion of young boy characters in animation played by adult women. Early opera also has a number of roles written for castrati: boys who were castrated to prevent their voices from changing. Since this isn't done anymore, modern productions of such roles fall under this trope by necessity.note The other options are to cast a male falsettist (which encompasses most countertenors) or, if the production is exceptionally lucky, to find a man whose voice naturally falls in a typically female range for whatever reason (most often a medical condition, especially of the hormonal variety that prevents a man's voice from changing without any mutilation necessary). The director is making a political statement—for example, about gender. Transgender and other gender variant characters are commonly played by actors who have the right body shape or voice rather than the right gender, as there often isn't a more suitable actor available. The role calls for a young-looking/undersized person, but due to Dawson Casting, the body size might not be right. The inverse is sometimes true. Very frequent when animals are used in films, especially if the species show little sexual dimorphism. In the Victorian/Edwardian era, when decent women were not supposed to show their legs in public, Fanservice was one reason why actresses so often found themselves costumed as boys. As a joke, often involving cameo appearances by well-known actors or actresses playing roles of the opposite gender, or stuff like having a bulky and masculine man wearing women clothes. The pantomime traditions of the Main Boy (the main male character being played by a woman) or the Pantomime Dame (a peripheral female character being played by a usually Large Ham male) are coming into play. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })In Western theatre and opera, a male character intended to be played by a female performer is commonly referred to as a "pants," "breeches," or "trouser" role. Love scenes involving these characters are a notorious source of Ho Yay. Compare Cross-Dressing Voices, which is the voice acting equivalent. In a common Casting Gag, you can often expect cross-cast roles to cause Recursive Crossdressing. Contrast with Gender Flip, in which a character is reimagined or rewritten to be the opposite gender, but the actor plays a character of their own gender. Please do not list "retroactive" examples of actors who transitioned at some point post-production, as this trope requires the casting to be an intentional decision. The fact that an actor no longer corresponds to the gender of a character they played is irrelevant to the work itself, and doesn't change the fact that they were considered by the world at large to be of the same gender of said character when they played them. Examples: |
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Finding Nemo the Musical has consistently cast women in the title role, a given since the Disney parks don't cast child actors. | |
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Alistair Sim as Miss Millicent Fritton in the original St. Trinian's series. Rupert Everett as Miss Camilla Fritton in the remake. | |
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The toddler son of the protagonist in The Toll of the Sea was played by a girl. | |
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Kim's son Tam in Miss Saigon has been played by both boys and girls, as the primary requirements for the role are 1) look Asian, 2) be short enough to pass for two years old, and 3) do what the director tells you to. | |
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Floating Weeds: Sumiko, the lead actress in a kabuki theater troupe, plays a male bandit during the show. The troupe has several male actors, so apparently they just feel like she's best at it. | |
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Beloved english children's book character Noddy is traditonally voiced by females in numerous adaptations (such as audio books and TV shows). This extends to the the 1994 stage production "Noddy Live" that was performed at "Festival Theater" in Edinburgh, Scotland where Noddy is played by Karen Briffett. The exception is Make Way For Noddy and Noddy, Toyland Detective (except France) where the character's voiced by young boys. | |
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One of the Pokestar films in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 has a Pokemon example. The Ledian which fights you with humans from Timegate Travelers saga is referred as female in script, but her sprite is that of a male. | |
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In 1913 short The Evidence of the Film, the role of the messenger boy is played by an 11-year-old girl, probably to make the character look even younger, possibly because the girl in question (Marie Eline) was a famous child star of the day. | |
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In Ranma ½, Akane has been stuck playing Romeo in school plays because she was the only one athletic enough for the role. Finally, she gets a chance to play Juliet, but there's still a problem casting her love interest.... | |
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Greater Tuna has usually two males play all the roles. | |
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Gilmore Girls: Paris plays Romeo to Rory's Juliet for a class project after the boy who was supposed to be playing Romeo gets expelled at the last minute. Dean is... intrigued. | |
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Posthumous example in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, with the bones of Arch Stanton being those of a Spanish actress who wanted her skeleton to be used for movies, so she could continue acting after her death. | |
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In the 5th episode of Chucky the young 20 something Charles Lee Ray is played by Fiona Dourif, the daughter of Brad Dourif because she resembled him in his younger days, she had makeup applied to make her look more masculine, wore baggy clothes to cover her breasts, and her father dubbed over her voice. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: In "The Gang Solves the North Korea Crisis", a female actress plays the owner of a neighboring bar who looks exactly like Kim Jong-Il, lampooning Kim's somewhat effeminate appearance. The gang directly asks him if he's a man or a woman. | |
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The Simpsons In one episode, Marge is auditioning in a musical based on A Streetcar Named Desire for the role of Blanche DuBois, and at the auditions learns that Ned Flanders is there as well. Flanders reveals that he's actually been in a play of Streetcar before, and the role he played was Blanche DuBois, adding "One of the benefits of going to an all-male acting school." In another episode, Martin Prince gets the role of Lizzie Borden for a school play. |
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In UFO Baby, the infant Ruu is cast as a baby princess in the main group's play. Keeping his gender concealed is no issue. Keeping his psychic powers concealed, on the other hand... | |
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Parks and Recreation: Jerry played Tinkerbell at his all-boys school. | |
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In Full House, Rebecca played Romeo in a school play at an all-girls school. | |
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The Kids in the Hall: As an all-male troupe, the cast members typically play all significant major female roles themselves, though they do it as realistically as possible to let the humor come from the situations. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? has the disadvantage of not even being able to rely on costumes. Colin usually gets stuck playing the woman. | |
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Home and Away took it all the way, with Annie playing Romeo and then-boyfriend Romeo as Juliet. The director was trying to make a statement of some sort. | |
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A3's Spring troupe rewrites Romeo and Juliet into Romeo and Julius, about Heterosexual Life-Partners, to avoid doing this. The Summer troupe, however, does it just fine with their Wholesome Crossdresser member, Yuki. | |
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In Cucumber Quest, Sir Bacon gets cast in the part of Witch-Queen Xylophonia... And he's pretty good at it, getting a standing ovation at the end of the play. | |
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Lassie was usually played by a male dog, as the males of "her" breed have a longer, more luxurious "summer coat" than the females. | |
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In Avenue Q, Gary Coleman is usually played by a woman because it is difficult to find a small enough man with a high enough voice. Also, puppet characters may sometimes be performed by a human of the opposite gender as the person who performs a puppet isn't necessarily the one providing the voice, as each puppeteer voices at least two puppets. The trope also comes into effect (sort of) with puppets who are performed by more than one person. For example, Nicky is, most of the time, performed by a male (who provides the voice, controls the head and left hand) and a female (who controls the right hand). | |
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In some Chinese traditional opera troupes, there are no actresses, so all of the female roles are played by men. (Farewell My Concubine is the story of such a cross-dressing actor.) | |
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In Monkey, the 1978 TV series adaptation of Journey to the West, the role of Tripitaka was played by Masako Natsume, although shaving her head to fit the role of a young monk helped her look the part a bit more, as Tripiaka/Sanzo was often portrayed as a beautiful young man. This made her the only female actress in the main cast, although whenever Buddha appeared he adopted an explicitly female form (commented on by Monkey) played by Mieko Takamine. | |
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In Airplane!, Ethel Merman, in her final film role, portrays a shell-shocked Army lieutenant who firmly believes he's Ethel Merman. | |
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Similarly, Lady Sibyl mentions in The Fifth Elephant that she won much acclaim playing the romantic lead in a dwarfish opera at her school. This is somewhat of a double example, as a) it was an all-girls school, and b) dwarfs are remarkably ambiguous about their biological sex. On the other hand, it might not be this trope at all, considering that it is not known what the sexes of the dwarves involved were. Their gender, on the other hand, was "dwarf", as they're a one-gender race by tradition. | |
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In Die Fledermaus, the part of Prince Orlofsky is almost always played by a woman. | |
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In Escape from New York, male inmates perform in drag in a stage musical in Manhattan prison. | |
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In one flashback on Highlander, it's shown that in 1663, Duncan played Kate a production of The Taming of the Shrew. | |
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Draco Malfoy in A Very Potter Musical, played by Lauren Lopez. | |
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Arrested Development has a convoluted example when George Michael tries out for Much Ado About Nothing to get closer to Maeby; she ends up playing Beatrice, and he ends up understudy to STEVE HOLT's Benedick. Then Tobias ends up directing the play, and when Maeby quits, Tobias suggests that he will play Beatrice. By the end of the episode, Maeby and STEVE HOLT are still playing Benedick and Beatrice, only each one is playing the other gender. | |
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The Cat in the Hat in Seussical has often been played by female performers, going back as far as Andrea Martin (of SCTV fame) in the Toronto workshop; Rosie O'Donnell and Cathy Rigby both stepped into the role during the unsuccessful Broadway run. | |
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The castrated boy Eli in Let the Right One In is played by Lina Leandersson. The audition for the role was open both to girls and boys. | |
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The role of Edwin Drood in the musical Drood. Announced by the Chairman as being played by the "famous male impersonator, Miss Alice Nutting." | |
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In one episode of King of the Hill, Peggy mentions that she played Danny Zuko in the high school production of Grease. | |
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In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Silent Bob as a baby is played by the then infant daughter of Kevin Smith, Harley Quinn Smith. | |
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Holy Musical B@man! has Lauren Lopez playing one of these roles again, this time as Commissioner Gordon and minor villains Calendar Man and Evil King Arthur. Meredith Stepien also plays the Riddler. Numerous roles are also crosscast in the last scene when the whole Justice League joins in with the last musical number. | |
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Married... with Children: Griff once played Dorothy at a school play version of The Wizard of Oz. | |
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It is quite common in so-called "adapted live stage tours" for male characters of short stature (e.g. Elmo) to be suit-acted by women. The same applies for costumed characters at amusement parks and family entertainment centers. | |
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Discworld: In Wyrd Sisters, due to the Shakespeare-based setting, Olwyn Vitoller's acting troupe are are all male (women aren't allowed on stage). His adopted son, Tomjon, ends up usually playing the leading lady, as his magically-enhanced acting talents allow him to convincingly play a woman to the point that male audience members fall for him. Lieutenant Blouse in Monstrous Regiment mentions he "got a huge round of applause as the Widow Trembler in 'Tis Pity She's A Tree", at his all-boys school. Similarly, Lady Sibyl mentions in The Fifth Elephant that she won much acclaim playing the romantic lead in a dwarfish opera at her school. This is somewhat of a double example, as a) it was an all-girls school, and b) dwarfs are remarkably ambiguous about their biological sex. On the other hand, it might not be this trope at all, considering that it is not known what the sexes of the dwarves involved were. Their gender, on the other hand, was "dwarf", as they're a one-gender race by tradition. |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship also confirms that Clover the Clever is male. | |
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In the National Theatre's 2014 production of Treasure Island, the comic relief role of Israel Hands, a male pirate, was played by female clown Angela de Castro. | |
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Noble Witches: The titular witches put on a very loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet for a group of orphans, with Wittgenstein playing Romeo and Keera playing Lord Montague. | |
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In The Cat and the Fiddle, Pierrot in the Show Within a Show is played as a trouser role by Odette. | |
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The Shakespeare Stealer series is set in Shakespeare's time, so all actors in the company are male (with one exception). Female roles are played by "prentices", adolescent boys who can still pass for women (it's stated that they "graduate" to male roles when their voices change). | |
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Westeros: An American Musical: Since the play is by an amateur troupe in which nobody has dwarfism, Tyrion's role was given to one of the shorter women. Another woman plays Joffrey, Jon Snow, the shadow-baby (a canonically male being), and Edric Storm. |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Gramma", Georgie's grandmother is played by Frederick Long. | |
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The Canadian sketch comedy series Codco, although a mixed-gender troupe, saw all of its actors sometimes play cross-gender roles. The show's most famous bit involved Canadian television journalist Barbara Frum, as played by Greg Malone in drag. One recurring sketch, "The Byrd Family", actually featured all five actors simultaneously playing across gender. This was continued to a lesser extent on the spinoff This Hour Has 22 Minutes, with Cathy Jones appearing as Joe Crow, Mary Walsh appearing as Dakey Dunn, and both playing two of the Quinlan Quints. (Rick Mercer and Greg Thomey did not cross-dress, although later cast addition Gavin Crawford did celebrity impersonations including Canadian journalist and commentator Chantal Hébert.) As with The Kids in the Hall, however, the crossdressing was never the joke in and of itself. | |
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The main characters of Home Movie: The Princess Bride, most of whom are portrayed by multiple actors, all have at least a few actors among them each who are of a different gender than the original character, with varying levels of effort to make them seem like the character's gender. Of course, this is solely Played for Laughs. | |
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Stephen Chow's CJ7 features a girl in the role of his son. | |
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As revealed in the commentary for Elf the baby Buddy was played by a baby girl. | |
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In pantomime any middle-aged or older woman (the "pantomime dame") will be played by a man in drag. In addition, the young male hero (the "principal boy") is traditionally played by a woman although it's not that uncommon for them to be played by a male instead. | |
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Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. And a great deal of other pages and young boys: Tebaldo in Don Carlo, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Smeton in Donizetti's Anna Bolena, Siebel in Faust, Stefano in Romeo et Juliette, Urbain in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, etc. |
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Cross-casting is a contractual obligation in The Mystery of Irma Vep. There are four male characters, four female characters, and two actors who each portray two female characters and two male characters. The licensing contract requires two male actors or two female actors. | |
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Grace of Grace & Tony sings from the perspective of male serial killer William Hare in "Invitation to an Autopsy." | |
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Star Wars Uncut: Sometimes Luke, Han, Vader, and others are female, and sometimes Leia is a guy. | |
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Drunk History's episode on Alexander Hamilton, narrated by Lin-Manuel Miranda, had the roles of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr played by Alia Shawkat and Aubrey Plaza. Both are also non-white, as an extension of Miranda's Hamilton where the cast is non-white except for King George III. | |
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Patrick from Schitt's Creek tells David about how he played the coveted role of Mary in his all-boys high school's Christmas pageant. | |
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In the Harry Potter films, Hedwig was always played by a male owl. This is due to the fact that J. K. Rowling didn't realize that only male snowy owls are pure white. That is to say non-magical snowy owls. A more minor example, but Sirius Black's dog form in the third film is modelled after Fern, a female dog. Madame Maxime is played by male basketballer Ian Whyte in full-body shots, presumably due to height. Slytherin's Basilisk in Chamber of Secrets is female, yet is voiced by Jason Isaacs. |
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Roundabout uses this as part of its surreal comedy and low-budget feel of the cutscenes. Protagonist Georgio is played by a woman, but the game treats him as male in-universe. | |
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In Bokura no Hentai, the Distant Finale shows that Tamura's first acting role as an adult is in a play where he plays a female character. He was always in his element dressed in female clothes as a teenager. | |
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A Taiwanese game show modelled after Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? gets slightly derailed when one of the schoolboys goes into an extended rant about being cast as Cinderella for a school play. It made it into broadcast. | |
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In Batman Beyond, Terry takes Bruce to a musical production about Batman. Robin is clearly being played by a woman (and wearing the original bare-legged Dick Grayson costume from the comics). | |
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A Brother's Price has an all-female opera ensemble performing a play about the civil war, including a sad monologue by a man involved in said war. He is played by a woman. Not the usual lack of men in unpaid theatre - men simply have Gender Rarity Value. | |
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Vanya Hargreeves from The Umbrella Academy (2019) is one of the few characters that became this: her actor, Elliot Page, came out as a trans man shortly after Netflix renewed the show for a third season, and will continue to reprise the role in the upcoming season. | |
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Baskets has Christine Baskets, mother of the titular character played by Louie Anderson. | |
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Voice and motion-capture for Fallout 4's version of perennial companion male dog Dogmeat was provided by River, a female German Shepard. | |
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In live-action footage of the witch from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the witch is played by Don Brodie and Moroni Olsen. This was done to give her a more aggressive masculine feel. | |
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In W.S. Gilbert’s ‘’The Princess,’’ the basis of his later ‘’Princess Ida’’, the roles of Prince Hilarion, Cyril and Florian disguise themselves as women and were played by actresses. Ida’s three brothers, manly as they are, were also played by women. The later Savoy Opera averted this trope. | |
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In The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, Gary's actor plays his character, the sorceress Luster as well, though there is also a female Luster who swaps in for the "oh yeah, my character is supposed to be a woman, isn't she" moments. | |
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The practice was somewhat phased out in modern Sentais, with female stunt actors playing the morphed heroes, though several of these actors would continue to don the suits of female villain roles, with Hachisuka in particular donning the costumes for Mele (armored form), Joyful Knight Candelilla and Madame Noir, while Nakagawa portrayed Metal Alice of the Agent. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender's last episode before the Grand Finale, the Gaang go and see a play based on the entire series up to that point. In a reference to Peter Pan, they find Aang (the lightly-built, hyperactive twelve-year-old) is played by a petite woman. While Aang (and the rest of the group) is disappointed with the entire portrayal of him, the casting choice is what confuses him the most. On the other hand, Toph (a little blind girl, but Boisterous Bruiser and Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy nonetheless) absolutely loves the fact that her part was played by a giant, muscular man. | |
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Nothing but Trouble: John Candy plays both Dennis Valkenheiser and his sister Eldona Valkenheiser. | |
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All versions of Hairspray feature a man as Edna Turnblad (the drag queen Divine in the original 1988 film, and John Travolta in the 2007 film of the musical). | |
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Ming plays 'Wilma' Loman in a Havens University production of Death of a Salesman. | |
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One class assignment in Precocious involved the kids spending some time as each other, drawn randomly. Naturally, some kids end up taking the role of opposite-gender kids. Three of the girls often wear dresses or skirts—Autumn, Tiffany, and Yvette. Jacob drew Autumn to study, while Roddy ended up as Tiffany. NO mention is made by anyone about them being in girl's clothing. (Yvette's role was taken by Kaitlyn. The other girls who were played by boys—Dionne and Ursula—usually wear pants.) Tiffany herself looks just odd in Bud's vest and shirt, though. | |
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky has an extended sequence wherein the leads are made to act in a school play. The play's director, for her own amusement, has decreed that all roles in the play will be this, leaving Estelle as the dashing red swordsman while Joshua is forced to play the damsel princess. | |
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Lieutenant Blouse in Monstrous Regiment mentions he "got a huge round of applause as the Widow Trembler in 'Tis Pity She's A Tree", at his all-boys school. | |
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Steel Soul Saga: In Steel Soul, if Sweetie Belle's mention of the pirate character she's playing as "He" is any hint. Although, Rarity calls it a she. | |
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The Duchess in the Royal Ballet's 2011 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is played by a man. | |
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Some productions of Cabaret have a butch actress play Max. | |
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In Wyrd Sisters, due to the Shakespeare-based setting, Olwyn Vitoller's acting troupe are are all male (women aren't allowed on stage). His adopted son, Tomjon, ends up usually playing the leading lady, as his magically-enhanced acting talents allow him to convincingly play a woman to the point that male audience members fall for him. | |
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I'm Not There is about six different versions of Bob Dylan. One of them is played by Cate Blanchett. | |
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Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi. | |
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The Assignment (2016): Michelle Rodriguez plays Frank, a male hitman (by means of a fake beard and some prosthetics initially) who's subjected to an Easy Sex Change by a Mad Doctor who wanted revenge on him because he had killed her brother. For the rest of the film, he looks like Rodriguez normally does (obviously the reason for this). | |
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The Magic School Bus: "A Magic School Bus Halloween" has Ms. Frizzle, in the live-action wraparound segments, playing the role of an eccentric old peddler named Archibald Dauntless to show three students (a Keesha/Wanda stand-in, a Carlos/Ralphie stand-in, and an Arnold stand-in played by his voice actor) that scary things are not as they seem. "The Magic School Bus Gets Planted" has Wanda in the role of Jack for a school play of Jack and the Beanstalk, and Arnold and Ralphie in the role of the cow. |
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In the "U.S. Acres" sections of Garfield and Friends, Wade's usually a victim of this in the fairy tale-themed episodes. This may be because, there's no one else around to fit the role of The Ingenue and the only main female character, Lanolin, is more suited for characters like Mulan. Wade's most known example of this trope is in "Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarves". Subverted when they did “Rumplestiltskin” and Wade was given the role of the miller’s daughter, but he objected that he didn’t want to be a girl. | |
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In The Golden Child, Jasmine (credited as J.L.) Reate plays the title character. | |
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In the 2016 TV movie adaptation of Legends of the Hidden Temple, Mikey, a male green monkey and literal depiction of an animal team name from the original game show, was played by a female monkey named Crystal. | |
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The character of Peter Pan is traditionally played by an actress, to the point that the character is sometimes jokingly referred to as "Broadway's most famous drag king." Both the original play and 1954 musical follow this tradition. The only male actor to have played Peter Pan on Broadway is Jack Noseworthy, who understudied the role as part of Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Curiously enough, J. M. Barrie himself wanted the role of Captain Hook to be played by the same actor as Mrs. Darling, rather than Mr. Darling. Peter Pan is played by actress Kacey Ainsworth in the Children's Party at the Palace live event. |
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In Flashdance's final dance number to "What a Feeling", Alex's backspin move was performed by breakdancer Richard Colón in drag, since the female body doubles were unable to pull it off. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie engaged in this on occasion; the "man playing a woman" was occasionally part of the joke, but only to the extent that Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry make for absolutely ridiculous women. | |
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In stage versions of Chicago, the character of Mary Sunshine is usually played by a man in drag, whose gender is revealed as a plot surprise. The movie cast a woman in the part, probably because there was no way to keep the twist from being obvious. (This was also not the case in the original non-musical play.) | |
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In the Swedish comedy film The Adventures of Picasso, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are played by British comedians Bernard Cribbins and Wilfrid Brambell, respectively. | |
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In Prisoner: Cell Block H, Chrissie Latham's daughter Elizabeth is played by a baby boy. Lorelei Wilkinson's daughter Zoe was played by young twin boys, one of which refused to let the producers put him in a dress. | |
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Cardcaptor Sakura: The main character's class held a production of "Sleeping Beauty". Because the roles were hidden by a cover and required each member of the class to write their name in the blank slots, when the teacher removed the cover they discovered that - basically - Sakura had cast herself as the Prince, Syaoran as the Princess, and Takashi as the Queen - making for a slightly awkward production, especially for Sakura's brother Touya (who of course noticed this well enough). In a halfway example, Tomoyo was cast as the narrator, which is traditionally given to a male actor (but not strictly). In the anime, this also happens to Touya's class production of "Cinderella" in which he plays the title character and a girl in his class (who has a crush on him) plays the prince. |
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30 Rock also used this with Margaret Cho's recurring role as Kim Jong-il in Seasons 5 and 6. | |
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In one episode, Marge is auditioning in a musical based on A Streetcar Named Desire for the role of Blanche DuBois, and at the auditions learns that Ned Flanders is there as well. Flanders reveals that he's actually been in a play of Streetcar before, and the role he played was Blanche DuBois, adding "One of the benefits of going to an all-male acting school." | |
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Miss Trunchbull in Matilda is traditionally played by a male, and thus has a baritone-range voice. | |
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In the 1914 film The Patchwork Girl of Oz, the young boy Ojo is played by Violet MacMillan. | |
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Several of the productions from Kaleido Star feature females in male roles. Ana especially tends to play male characters. | |
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In John Wick, John's female puppy, Daisy, is played by a male Beagle puppy named Andy. | |
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In Devs, Cailee Spaeny plays Lyndon and could easily pass as an adolescent boy. According to Alex Garland, a female actor was chosen to give the character a more youthful appearance without requiring an underage actor. Puzzlingly, the character's age is given as 19 in the dialogue of a late episode. | |
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In a Glee fanfic named "Defying Gravity", Kurt plays Elphaba in a community theater production of Wicked. | |
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It: Chapter Two has Kate Lunman as Chris Unwin, one of the hoodlums who assaults Adrian Melon and Don Hagarty at the start of the film. | |
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Eddie Murphy did it again when he played Rasputia in Norbit. | |
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The Wizard of Oz: Since the 1980s, the official promotional performer for the Wicked Witch of the West has been Kurt Raymond, who, when he first got the role, was auditioning for the role of the Scarecrow. It certainly helps him that under all that makeup he looks so much like Margaret Hamilton, her own son mistook him for her when he performed at a 70th anniversary gala for the film in 2009. | |
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In Sh15uya, protagonist Tsuyoshi is played by actress Saya Yuki. | |
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Caryl Churchill's play Cloud Nine uses cross-gender (and cross-ethnic) casting in the first act, to emphasize the disconnect between the character's feelings and their outer show, particularly in Act I. Betty, a high-strung, cuckolded, lady of the house, is deliberately played like an over-the-top man in drag a la Monty Python to show the absurdity of Victorian gender roles. In the second act, she's played straight by a woman and pretty much realized she'd been forced to play a caricature most of her life. Conversely, Betty's son Edward is played by a woman as a child in Act I, but by a man in Act II. (The usual practice is to have the actors switch off between acts, so the actor for Betty in Act I will be Edward in Act II and vice-versa.) The sole Act 2 example involves Cathy (a little girl) played by a grown man, usually the same man who played the patriarch Clive in the first act. It's more than just Rule of Funny, though, as it also serves as a metaphor for colonialism, which is a major theme of the show: Cathy is immature and out of control, and because she is actually a full-grown man, her misbehaviour is more of a threat than her identity suggests. |
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In Twilight: Los Angeles, all of the roles are played by Anna Deveare Smith. | |
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In His and Her Circumstances, Maho Izawa is cast in a play as an android Bishōnen. | |
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Several later productions of King Lear have had the Fool played by an actress, sometimes using a puppet. | |
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The Talosians in the first Star Trek pilot were played by women but had male voices. This has been repeated in a few of the spin-offs as well. | |
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The main cast of Faux Pas are mostly animal actors. Randy, a male fox, has been cast as a vixen at least twice, once as "Miss April" in a wildlife calendar, and another time in a car ad that involved a lot of makeup and tacky jewelry. Though his girlfriend Cindy filled in for him at one of the car ads, and she kind of acted as his "stunt double" in a schlocky low-budget sci-fi flick. | |
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Rogan from Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is played by actress Yukari Oshima, presumably because no actual man was pretty enough. This is probably the least insane thing in the whole movie. | |
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The 2019 adaptation of Little Women shows Meg doing one for a play she and her sisters are performing, as it takes a while for them to get a male friend that could fit such roles. | |
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The Farndale Avenue plays revolve around an all-female amateur theatre troupe, so all the male roles in their plays are played by women. An inversion of the rule occurs in The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Operatic Society's Production of The Mikado, which begins with an announcement that the actress playing the schoolgirl Pitti-Sing has become unavailable at short notice, so for one night only, the role will be played by the elderly male vicar. | |
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In Barrel Rolls and Broken Dreams, Fox is played by a female, thus making the subplot where Slippy does not know that he is a male more amusing. | |
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In Mädchen in Uniform when the girls do a play at their all-girls school. | |
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Tsukipro The Animation features Rikka and Dai (both male) playing a princess and knight in a commercial for women's cosmetics. Their previous ad series for the makeup brand featuring a male star (Gravi's Hajime) was such a huge success (and Hajime looked so good with that red lipstick), that they decided to try taking it a step further. Rikka has no problem with it, and the episode centers on Dai's anxiety over whether he's a good enough performer to star with Rikka. | |
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In Jack and Jill, Adam Sandler plays both the main character and the character's sister, leading to bizarre Disguised in Drag jokes despite Jill's character being biologically female. | |
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In KÀ, the twin protagonists are opposite-sex fraternal twins, but identical female twins are cast in the roles. | |
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Mr. Jacobi's son Ismael in Fanny and Alexander is played by a woman. There's no obvious reason for this, but since Ismael is a mentally disturbed character who appears to bring about someone's death just by thinking about it, it may be for general creepiness. | |
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VeggieTales: Lyle the Kindly Viking has Mr. Lunt as Ophelia when the veggies put on "Omlette". | |
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Traditionally, Mrs. Luce in Little Shop of Horrors is played by the actor who played Orin, who also plays many other minor roles. | |
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In Outrageous Fortune, Shelley Long's ambition was to play Hamlet. (Sarah Bernhardt was the first, or at least most famous early, example of a woman playing Hamlet actually happening.) | |
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The lead from Cats & Dogs is a male puppy played by multiple dogs, both female and male. This isn't uncommon for animal characters, however not much effort was made to disguise this. The puppy noticeably changes sexes between scenes. | |
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Motokuni Nakagawa has even earned the nickname of "Mr. Pink" for being in the costume for Pink Racer, Ginga Pink, Go Pink, Time Pink, and Bouken Pink. | |
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In many productions of A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim is cast as a trouser role. The Spirit of Christmas Past was originally depicted as Ambiguous Gender but is often portrayed as or at least played by a woman. Occasionally, even Christmas Present or Marley are cross-cast or gender-flipped. | |
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Bert is again dragooned into playing a woman in A Muppet Family Christmas, when the Sesame gang performs an enactment of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. Bert plays "Mamma in her kerchief" while Ernie is "I in my cap". | |
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In the video for van Canto's "Badaboom", female singer Inga Scharf plays the role of Ozzy Osbourne in two brief scenes. | |
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Tomo-chan Is a Girl!: When planning a production of Cinderella for the culture festival, Class 1-A promptly volunteers Tomo to play the Prince. They back off when Tomo objects, but when it becomes clear the second choice for all the on-stage romance with the pretty princess is Jun she does a frantic 180. | |
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In the anime adaptation of D.N.Angel the school play is done with entirely male actors and an all-female production team. The excuse the ladies give for this decision is to respect Shakespeare and his all-male acting troupe; the real reason is that they want to see the male lead and his Ambiguously Gay rival, cast as the female and male leads respectively, share romantic scenes together. | |
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In Jade Empire female roles in plays are played by men, or at least "women who have the courtesy of pretending to be men pretending to be women," as in old China. In one side quest, the player character is roped into filling in for an actor playing "Lady Fourteen Flowers". | |
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Saturday Night Live, of course, is a comedy troupe with both men and women. There have been both male cast members playing female characters (such as Dana Carvey's "Church Lady" character) and female cast members playing male characters (such as Rachel Dratch playing Harry Potter and Amy Poehler playing Kim Jong-Il, and Melissa McCarthy's turn as Sean Spicer). | |
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On Young Sheldon, Sheldon becomes disillusioned with science for one episode and decides to take up acting instead, and gets cast as the lead in Annie. In the end, he gets stage fright and bows out at the last second, forcing the director (played by Jason Alexander) to play the part instead. | |
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In Back to the Future Part II, Michael J. Fox plays most of the members of Marty's future family, including his daughter. | |
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Hook: "Gutless", the bearded pirate who was put in "the boo box", was actually played by renowned actress, Glenn Close. | |
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Home Improvement played with this in that it wasn't the joke itself, but rather just an excuse for Jill and Wilson (who both had experience playing Juliet) to fight over who would help Randy practice the "Romeo" role. Jill also mentions having played Othello, to which Randy quips that she was probably a very convincing black man. | |
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Cloud Atlas, in which most of the cast play multiple roles, has several examples. For instance, Hugo Weaving plays a fat, haughty nurse who looks like this◊. | |
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In the Soviet musical adaptation of Mary Poppins Miss Andrew is played by a man (Oleg Tabakov). | |
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Safe Havens: Dave and Samantha were understudies for Romeo and Juliet respectively, however, when the person playing Juliet fell sick and Samantha was at band practice, Dave volunteered to play Juliet since he knew her part by heart as well thanks to him and Samantha practicing together. Then, when the person playing Romeo quit because he didn't want to kiss a boy, they hastily got Samantha to come in...but by then the play was about to start and they didn't have time to change costumes, so Samantha just played Romeo instead in her band uniform. Ming plays 'Wilma' Loman in a Havens University production of Death of a Salesman. |
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Sophie of Leverage plays Willie Loman in Death of a Salesman; she's so Giftedly Bad that Nate doesn't realize that she's playing him as a man, leading to a particularly cringe-worthy Compliment Backfire. | |
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Many a woman in Little Britain is portrayed by the two male lead actors. Since most of them are supposed to be rather... unique in appearance it's not much of a stretch. | |
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During dream sequences in Disco Elysium, your male character has conversations with the voices of his unconscious brain. His Limbic System is female, and played in a wheedling Creepy High-Pitched Voice by the same male actor who plays the other brain voices, reflecting that she may well be your feminine side but she's still just part of you. | |
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Super Sentai and Power Rangers usually cast male stunt actors portraying the female heroes while in costume, even without taking into account the times when She's a Man in Japan. Motokuni Nakagawa has even earned the nickname of "Mr. Pink" for being in the costume for Pink Racer, Ginga Pink, Go Pink, Time Pink, and Bouken Pink. Easily the longest-running of these is Yūichi Hachisuka, who's played three male rangers as well as females from Change Phoenix to Yellow Buster! The practice was somewhat phased out in modern Sentais, with female stunt actors playing the morphed heroes, though several of these actors would continue to don the suits of female villain roles, with Hachisuka in particular donning the costumes for Mele (armored form), Joyful Knight Candelilla and Madame Noir, while Nakagawa portrayed Metal Alice of the Agent. Naoko Kamio is frequently cast as male rangers or non-human characters, sometimes as a substitute performer; among her credits are Koguma Skyblue, Datas and Ginis. |
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M. Butterfly has this as a plot point: a foreigner visiting the all-male Chinese opera mistakes performer Song for a woman, which he uses to his advantage. The playbills of most productions try to hide the fact that the character is played by a male actor, so The Reveal is shocking. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack the Monkey was played by a female monkey named Crystal. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, during the Pokémon parody "Grace-A-Monsters!" storyline, Nanase plays Professor Oaks grandson. | |
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Inverted in Shakespeare in Love. Because women aren't allowed to act, Violet disguises herself as "Thomas Kent" to play women's roles. | |
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Perry in Kevin & Perry Go Large is played by the very female Kathy Burke. | |
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Company: In the revised Swan Lake, Rothbart and the Black Swan share an actor. | |
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In Hairspray, Edna is always played by a man, the part having been originated by the 300-pound drag queen Divine. The Musical helps enforce this by writing Edna's song parts in the baritone range. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode where the protagonists put on a pageant for Hearth's Warming Eve, all the historical figures are portrayed by the (all-female) main cast. At least one role, Commander Hurricane, is heavily implied to have actually been a stallion, not a mare. And any of the others could have been, even Prince/ss Platinum. This being a very old pageant and one that's performed all over at this time, there were probably male ponies somewhere playing all of the historically female roles as well. The book The Journal of the Two Sisters confirms that Commander Hurricane is indeed the only stallion of the founders. My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship also confirms that Clover the Clever is male. The episode "Marks For Effort" shows a slide of Chancellor Puddinghead, who is shown to have the body of that of a stallion. |
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Doctor Who occasionally has female or male aliens and robots played by actors of the opposite gender, but they're often in full-body suits, making it easier to get away with. Examples include Daz Parker as the Wooden Cyberman in "The Time of The Doctor", and Paul Kasey and Alan Ruscoe as the Susannah Constantine and Trinny Woodall androids in "Bad Wolf". | |
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In Dark City, Mr. Sleep is a child with the male honorific "Mr.", however he is played in closeups by a girl, and in the long shots by her fraternal twin brother. Of course, the character doesn't have to be male - the strangers may not have paid any attention to gender. | |
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The infamous Japanese live-action commercial for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (the one with the rapping) had Link played by a 16-year-old schoolgirl. Due to Link's soft features and slight build, this is actually less jarring than you'd think. | |
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Happened all the time in Monty Python's Flying Circus, because the troupe was all male, but also played for comedy. They did have access to real actresses, such as Carol Cleveland, when they needed to have an actual woman (though one sketch had Cleveland playing a male explorer, and at least twice, Cleveland also portrayed a male juror or barrister, and occasionally a role you'd expect to be a Pepperpot was played by an actual older woman, the most notable example being the second appearance of the Spanish Inquisition where they attempt to interrogate an old lady as a heretic using such torture tools as cushions and a comfy chair). | |
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And The League of Gentlemen also does this, for the same reasons as The Kids in the Hall, although men-playing-women was never part of the joke. (Except with Barbara, of course.) | |
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Sera Myu has many male characters played by women (Prince Demand, Blue Saphir, Hawk's Eye, Fish's Eye, Jadeite, Kunzite). The fact that Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi was a fan of Takarazuka Revue (and used it for inspiration for Sailors Uranus and Neptune) and many actresses were alums of the Revue probably helped as well. Starting from the 2013 Sera Myu revival, this seems to be established: The Nelke musicals (from La Reconquista to Le Mouvement Final), the Nogizaka48 musical, The Super Live, and Princess Kaguya's Lover all have all-women casts, with at least one former Takarasienne. The Super Live also features the franchise's first transgender actress, Reo Sanada, as Kunzite. |
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In Orfeo ed Euridice, Cupid, a male god in mythology, is traditionally sung soprano by women. Orpheus himself tends to be portrayed this way as well. | |
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Inheritance of Cards and Demons: Rin Okumura is volunteered by his classmates to play Snow White in the school play because he has Raven Hair, Ivory Skin. There's also an element of mockery, but that quickly disappears when the other teens see him in costume — also, the prince is a girl. | |
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French and Saunders has a gender-flipped example of the all-male comedy troupes; they do have two male comics on hand if required, but obviously the title duo has to play the main characters, even if they're doing a parody of The Phantom Menace. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Bolt references this in "The Imaginary Letters" when he mentions that the role of Lassie is played by a male dog: | |
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Octavian of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier is a young man, who at one point disguises himself as a woman; his part is played by female singers. | |
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In High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, male student Seb Matthew-Smith auditions for and lands the female role of Sharpay due to the new drama teacher finding the idea "so fresh". | |
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Some, but not all, modern productions of The Importance of Being Earnest cast a man as Lady Bracknell. | |
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In the Mickey Mouse short "Mickey's Mellerdrammer", which is about Mickey and the gang performing in a play based on Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mickey himself not only plays the title role of Uncle Tom, but he also plays Topsy. | |
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In Wandering Son, the school holds a play where all the girls play the male parts and the guys play the female parts. | |
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In Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Kashima often cross-casts as the Prince Charming in school plays, in a clear reference in Takarazuka Revue's otakoyaku roles. | |
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In the Enemy at the Door episode "The Jerrybag", baby Erich is played by a female infant. | |
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In Bad Machinery, Lottie gets the part of Blake in her (mixed) school's production of Glengarry Glen Ross. | |
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In American Idiot, one of the people that temporarily played St. Jimmy while Billie Joe Armstrong was away was Melissa Etheridge, whose performance was noted for being seductive and highlighting the androgynous nature of the character. Casting a woman as this role, which had previously been played by two men, also made sense, given the fact that St. Jimmy is actually an illusion of Johnny's psyche, and therefore doesn't technically have an actual gender. | |
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One episode of Michiko & Hatchin has the duo meet a man who is famous for playing female roles. His son permanently crossdresses, in hopes of becoming a good actor like his dad. | |
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In House on Bare Mountain, the headmistress Granny Good is played by actor Bob Cresse (or 'Lovable Bob Cresse as he is billed); very much in the style of a pantomime dame. | |
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Like other sketch shows, All That featured a handful of these, most prominently Katrina Johnson as Presidential candidate H. Ross Perot. | |
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In K-On!, the main characters' class puts on a production of Romeo and Juliet for their school festival. As it's an all-girls school, the male parts are played by girls. | |
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It is very common for the title character in The Nutcracker to be played by a woman (a notable example being the 1989 Bolshoi recording, in which the role was danced by Marisa Okothnikova). Because, ya know, the nutcracker jokes weren't easy enough already. Mother Ginger is often played by a man in drag. | |
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Naoko Kamio is frequently cast as male rangers or non-human characters, sometimes as a substitute performer; among her credits are Koguma Skyblue, Datas and Ginis. | |
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In Wild Child, Freddie tells Poppy that he was Alice in the school play. "All boys, before you look at me weirdly!" | |
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StarMyu's first season has the obligatory Imagine Spot of Tengenji playing Juliet, but season 2 reveals that in middle school, Tatsumi played a princess in the school play, and Sawatari played his knight. Their juniors still call them "princess-senpai" and "knight-senpai". The same episode also contains a flashback to Otori playing a female role in a play. The play performed in that episode also features a male student as the main female character, though the character's maid is played by a female student. | |
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Jack Aubrey of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series proudly mentions having played Ophelia—or, at least, one-third of Ophelia—as a midshipman. It was a shipboard production so they naturally didn't have any women; of the midshipmen, one was considered pretty enough to be Ophelia, another had an appropriately-pitched speaking voice, and Jack could carry a tune. | |
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The book The Journal of the Two Sisters confirms that Commander Hurricane is indeed the only stallion of the founders. | |
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Prince Kaguya: The male Shouta Aoi plays Aoi, the birth mother of Kaguya, in addition to Kaguya and himself. | |
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Easily the longest-running of these is Yūichi Hachisuka, who's played three male rangers as well as females from Change Phoenix to Yellow Buster! | |
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"The Magic School Bus Gets Planted" has Wanda in the role of Jack for a school play of Jack and the Beanstalk, and Arnold and Ralphie in the role of the cow. | |
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Peter Pan is played by actress Kacey Ainsworth in the Children's Party at the Palace live event. | |
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When the team has to stage Romeo and Juliet in Legends of Tomorrow, Ava takes the role of Lord Capulet, with a fake goatee to sell it. Conversely, Nate (male) plays Juliet for a few scenes before Zari (female) takes over, much to William's confusion. | |
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The Lord of the Rings required large numbers of competent equestrians as extras to play the Rohirrim and other mounted soldiers. The riding clubs of New Zealand and Australia were able to provide sufficient numbers of horses and riders... but a large number of these riders are women. Thus, many "men of the West" are actually women wearing fake beards. | |
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In The Year of Living Dangerously, actress Linda Hunt plays a male photographer named Billy Kwan. This was a "body type" example; the character is a dwarf, which limited the pool of available candidates to the point that the director decided to go for the best actor regardless of sex or ethnicity. She won an Oscar for it. | |
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Friends had Chandler's father (who is either a transvestite or is transgender; the show was never clear) played by Kathleen Turner (voice of Jessica Rabbit). | |
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Book-It Repertory Theatre's 2020 production of The Turn of the Screw featured an all-female cast. | |
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Emily portrays Peter Pan for a school play. In a Real Life example Alexander's youngest brother Trevor is played by twin girls. |
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Blade Runner 2049 uses this in a complicated, spoilerific way to invert this and play it straight at the same time for a double-whammy of plot-twists. Officer K, in his childhood Fake Memories, is played by a boy in flashbacks - but although the events he's remembering are actually real, they're not his memories. They're the childhood memories of the woman Ana Stelline, played by Carla Juri. | |
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In The Phantom of the Opera, Christine gets relegated to the role of the Page Boy rather than the lead as the Phantom insists. | |
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In This Is Halloween, a 2019 Seattle-based cabaret musical of The Nightmare Before Christmas, actress Jasmine Sim played Oogie Boogie. | |
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The 1998 Encores! production of Li'l Abner had Marryin' Sam played by actress Lea DeLaria. | |
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And a great deal of other pages and young boys: Tebaldo in Don Carlo, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, Smeton in Donizetti's Anna Bolena, Siebel in Faust, Stefano in Romeo et Juliette, Urbain in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, etc. | |
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